Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie : the Making of Chinese American Rhetoric.
LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
2006.
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| ISBN: | 9780874215380 0874215382 1283283514 9781283283519 9786613283511 6613283517 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: thinking through paradoxes
- 1. Opening topics: reading Chinese fortune cookie
- 2. Face to face: Chinese and European American
- 3. Indirection versus directness: a relation of complementarity
- 4. Terms of contact reconfigured: ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism
- 5. From classroom to community: Chinese American rhetoric on the ground
- 6. Closing comment: Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.